Newcastle Coal Measures
E352237
The Newcastle Coal Measures are a major Late Permian coal-bearing sedimentary sequence in eastern Australia, notable for their extensive coal deposits within the Sydney Basin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newcastle Coal Measures canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3373724 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Newcastle Coal Measures Context triple: [Sydney Basin, hasFormation, Newcastle Coal Measures]
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A.
Yorkshire coalfield
The Yorkshire coalfield is a major coal-mining region in northern England that was historically central to the UK coal industry and a focal point of industrial and labor disputes.
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B.
Fife coalfield
The Fife coalfield is a historically significant coal-mining region in Fife, Scotland, that played a major role in the area's industrial development and local communities.
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C.
Lancashire coalfield
The Lancashire coalfield is a historic coal-mining region in North West England that fueled much of the area’s industrial growth during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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D.
Kent coalfield
The Kent coalfield was a coal-mining region in southeast England whose pits and communities played a notable role in the UK coal industry and in major industrial disputes, including the 1984–1985 miners’ strike.
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E.
Nottinghamshire coalfield
The Nottinghamshire coalfield is a major historical coal-mining region in central England that played a significant role in the county’s industrial development.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Newcastle Coal Measures Target entity description: The Newcastle Coal Measures are a major Late Permian coal-bearing sedimentary sequence in eastern Australia, notable for their extensive coal deposits within the Sydney Basin.
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A.
Yorkshire coalfield
The Yorkshire coalfield is a major coal-mining region in northern England that was historically central to the UK coal industry and a focal point of industrial and labor disputes.
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B.
Fife coalfield
The Fife coalfield is a historically significant coal-mining region in Fife, Scotland, that played a major role in the area's industrial development and local communities.
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C.
Lancashire coalfield
The Lancashire coalfield is a historic coal-mining region in North West England that fueled much of the area’s industrial growth during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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D.
Kent coalfield
The Kent coalfield was a coal-mining region in southeast England whose pits and communities played a notable role in the UK coal industry and in major industrial disputes, including the 1984–1985 miners’ strike.
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E.
Nottinghamshire coalfield
The Nottinghamshire coalfield is a major historical coal-mining region in central England that played a significant role in the county’s industrial development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coal-bearing formation
ⓘ
geologic formation ⓘ sedimentary sequence ⓘ |
| contains | coal seam ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| depositionalEnvironment |
coastal plain
ⓘ
deltaic ⓘ fluvial ⓘ |
| economicImportance | coal mining ⓘ |
| geologicAge | Late Permian ⓘ |
| geologicPeriod | Permian ⓘ |
| lithology |
coal
ⓘ
mudstone ⓘ sandstone ⓘ siltstone ⓘ tuff ⓘ |
| locatedIn | eastern Australia ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Newcastle, New South Wales ⓘ |
| notableFor | extensive coal deposits ⓘ |
| overlies | Tomago Coal Measures ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hunter Coalfield
ⓘ
linked to:
Hunter coalfields
Newcastle Coalfield ⓘ
linked to:
Durham coalfield
Sydney Basin ⓘ |
| region | New South Wales ⓘ |
| resourceType |
coking coal
ⓘ
thermal coal ⓘ |
| stratigraphicUnitOf | Sydney Basin ⓘ |
| underlies | Narrabeen Group ⓘ |
| usedFor |
electricity generation
ⓘ
steel production ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Newcastle Coal Measures Description of subject: The Newcastle Coal Measures are a major Late Permian coal-bearing sedimentary sequence in eastern Australia, notable for their extensive coal deposits within the Sydney Basin.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.